任务、年龄和性别对幼儿情绪理解成绩的影响

以69名3-6岁幼儿为被试,考察了在简单面部表情识别任务、基于愿望的情绪理解任务、基于信念的情绪理解任务和冲突情绪理解任务四种条件下幼儿情绪理解的表现。结果表明:1)幼儿的情绪理解能力随年龄发展不断提高,各层次的情绪理解上存在先后顺序,情绪理解性别差异不显著;2)幼儿在情绪类型识别上表现出一定的偏好;3)幼儿在情绪理解任务上的表现总体上存在潜在的认知一致性,在不同层次上又具有显著的任务特异性。

The Influence of Tasks,Age and Sex on Children's Performance of Emotion Understanding

69 preschooler from three to six years of age were tested in four tasks which were separately the identification of simple facial expression,emotion understanding based on desires,beliefs and emotion understanding in equivocal situations.The results indicate that(1) the ability of Preschooler's emotion understanding generally is improved as the age increases and is shown in the performance of different emotion understanding tasks.There is significant gender effect on preschooler's emotion understanding.(2) Great preference is shown on particular type of facial expression.(3) a great intrinsic consistency of cognition is implicated,and task-specific on different stage of emotion understanding is also implicated.